Gary Cherone Quotes

Being in a band is like a small family. You travel together, make music, and share time with each other.

I write songs, but the guys play on them, they have opinions on them, and we tour together and spend all our time together.

Yeah, I love doing ensemble pieces. You get to meet so many new people and make new friends.

Everyone that I work with is a friend. I won't make a record with anyone unless we kick it.

I love collaborating because I come from the world of being in bands.

Every time you go in to make a record with the same group of musicians, the communication gets better and better. You've got that joint experience, and you learn with every single one that you have on top of that.

I'm always with my band; they're my best friends.

When you're in a band, it's a close-knit thing. There's a lot of emotional stuff.

If we weren't in this band, some of us wouldn't be playing at all. You have tiffs with someone when he has smelly feet in the touring van, but we all respect each other as friends first.

The best times in Cold Chisel were when we were all in the back of the car together, us against the world.

The Band is sounding real good. We've been doing some dates together and they've been going well.

I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.

I pretty much built a band out of the most incredible guys I could possibly find. I didn't really want a six-piece band, but it just ended up being a six-piece band because these guys are all awesome.

I've always just given myself to the band, if you know what I mean, and been busy with that.

I really enjoy being with the people I play with. I enjoy their company. I love the crew, the band - we just move through the country like an army. I always feel very grateful to be up there. There aren't any bad nights anymore unless I'm singing bad, but then the band will carry me. And if they're playing bad, I will carry them..

I'm a fan of people getting together.

I've made great friends through acting. When I'm with Victoria Wood and Julie Walters, we have grand fun. We can make each other howl with laughter because we know each other so well.

I love working with my friends.

Julie, Mia and I just met for a couple days, doing some work but really under the guise of having fun. We do events like the Women's Sports Foundation Dinner, where we get to not only do a good thing for the community but we get to hang out with one another again.

I love bringing people together. I think that the environment is so important in terms of what kind of relationships you might be able to create, how people get to know each other.

All your travelling is together, you eat together, you're on stage as a band together, when you get to the sound-check the band and the crew are all together.

While at a biological disadvantage in competitions, women - who even make trips to restaurant bathrooms in pairs - are at a clear advantage when it comes to grouping together and the activities that accompany it: gossiping, sharing, bonding, assisting, scrapbooking, and building networks.

People forget that keeping a band together is hard; man, it's really hard. All the cliches apply about living in each other's pockets; of it being a relationship, a marriage, a family.

My method is much like choreography. I don't sit at a table. I work in a room with people.

When you're in a band, you're just trying to do whatever you can to keep your band together. You're thinking very inwardly, very myopic.